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Getting your boots dirty, digging into the real, expressing the places

Luís Costa

RESEARCH SEMINAR OPEN CLASSES
OCTOBER 29TH OF 2024, 2PM
ROOM 34 EP.1 – ESAD.CR

Community, sustainability, solidarity, social responsibility, etc. How to separate the wheat from the tare, the technocratic and moralistic mantle of daily necessity and responsibility? And in artistic creation, in which areas such as site-specific art, public art and community art are as popular as unstable terrains, what can we add from an empirical experience of 20 years of reception and artistic production in rural context? To walk, listen, empathize, doubt, communicate with abandon, to be prepared for the unforeseen folds of reality, in its smallest details and in its deepest contradictions and complexities.

Luís Costa is an economist and PhD candidate in Artistic Creation at Aveiro University, Polytechnic University of Porto and School of Arts and Design of Caldas da Rainha. Since 2004, he has worked as a curator and programmer of contemporary artistic practices, as a sound and media artist and as an educator and cultural animator in rural contexts. President of Binaural Nodar, an association dedicated to sound and media art and social research in the rural territory of Viseu Dão Lafões, which has already welcomed more than 175 sound/media artists and social and environmental researchers. Coordinator of the Nodar Binaural Digital Archive, a research, cataloging and sound and audiovisual mapping project of the collective memory of the rural territories in which the association operates, which has more than 2.000 sound and audiovisual documents, being integrated in the Tramontana European network of music archives of  memory of mountain areas, which in 2020 received the Prix Europa Nostra: European Prize for Cultural Heritage in the research category. He is the author/editor of twelve books dedicated to artistic creation, especially sound and media, in rural contexts, rural ethnography and ethnomusicology, notably the catalog “Three Years in Nodar: Artistic Practices in Specific Context in Rural Portugal” which he co-edited in 2011, the book “Tales of Sonic Displacement: SoCCoS, a sound-based artist residency network” which he co-edited in 2016 and the book “Memoria Tramontana: Changes in rural Europe as seen by its inhabitants” which he co-edited in 2019.